Scientists unravel mystery of ‘mesospheric ghosts’ in the atmosphere
Credit: María Passas-Varo, et al., Nature Communications. A new study is finally shedding light on an enigmatic atmospheric phenomenon known as "mesospheric ghosts" ...
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This AI can ‘zoom and enhance’ astronomy images — and the results are amazing
New AI is breaking through the atmospheric blur.
If there was life on Mars, it likely drove itself extinct through climate-change
If microbes can do this, we should be particularly worried with our own impact on the climate.
Snowfall in the Alps is full of plastics particles
This study says plastic pollution in the air is way worse than we imagined.
The lowest level of the atmosphere is expanding because of global warming
The troposphere is getting about 50 meters thicker per decade due the buildup of greenhouse gases, at a rate that ...
Why do stars twinkle, or do they twinkle at all? For astronomers, this is important
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
Airborne microplastics have a growing influence on the climate, but we need more data
It's big enough to know something is happening. But we're still unsure exactly what.
Lightning discharges help clean the air of some greenhouse gases
We only found this out by accident.
Australia’s wildfires created a ‘record-breaking’ smoke plume in the upper atmosphere
Can’t have smoke without fire.
Pluto’s beating icy heart makes and breaks atmospheric winds
Pluto's heart-shaped basin may be as important for its climate as the ocean is for Earth's climate.
A new study says oxygen buildup on Earth was “inevitable,” and maybe on other planets, too
The findings offer renewed hope of finding oxygen on alien worlds.
Curiosity rover stumbles upon mystery of oxygen on Mars
Oxygen is rising and falling with the seasons unpredictably.
New capture technology scrubs atmospheric CO2 on the cheap
Saving money and saving the environment are my two favorite things.
Antarctic ozone hole at its smallest recorded size ever
Who said size doesn't matter?
Key variable used to study Mars’ ancient atmosphere varies during the day
This used to mess up our calculations, but now we understand why.
Spitzer confirms: no atmosphere on nearby exoplanet
Christened LHS 3844b, the exoplanet is 1.3 times larger than our planet and orbits its star in 11 hours.
Iron-breathing bacteria might have delayed Earth’s oxygenation for almost one billion years
Inhale iron, exhale rust.
The Earth’s atmosphere extends twice as far as the Moon, technically
You should probably try really hard to hold your breath around there, though.
Bombs dropped during the Second World War were felt to the edge of space
We've come a long way from being scared, scrawny apes in the savannah.
All this time, outer space was secretly much closer than we thought
Tricksy, tricksy space.
NASA releases atmospheric simulation of this year’s hurricane season
Cool and pretty at the same time!? NASA gets the best things!
Researchers discover atmosphere around an Earth-like planet
Can we get excited yet? Mmm no, not really.
Early life kept oxygen in check and stalled evolution for billions of years, model suggests
Evolution doesn't always procrastinate. But when it does, it's for 2 billion years.
A whole new branch of life could have evolved and died off on Earth 2,4 billion years ago
There's no proof. But the conditions were right for it to happen.
Io’s atmosphere collapses every time there’s an eclipse
Reason number #1304 not to colonize Io.
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is heating its upper atmosphere
The swirling gases could shed light on the atmosphere of other planets within and outside of our solar system.
NASA announcement: Martian atmosphere was stripped by solar wind
NASA figured out how Mars transformed from a lush environment to a red desert.
Astronomers discover huge hydrogen cloud around exoplanet
Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have identified a warm Neptune-sized planet that is "bleeding" a huge hydrogen cloud - thus ...
Neptune-sized alien planet found to harbor water vapor in its atmosphere
Astronomers have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of a new exoplanet - a planet from outside our solar system ...
New study claims Mars had oxygen-rich atmosphere 4 billion years ago
Scientists from Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford have analyzed the compositions of Martian meteorites found on ...
Earth’s prehistoric atmosphere was covered in a haze similar to Saturn’s moon, Titan
If you think today's urban air, thickened with noxious smog, is terrible, just imagine how the Earth was filled in ...
Oxygen atmosphere on Saturn’s moon, Dione
It's been less than a month since we published the last thing about the Cassini probe, and the amazing spacecraft ...
Exotic extreme microbes played a role in Earth’s early atmosphere
Some species of bacteria can survive virtually anywhere: in acids, in nuclear waste, at extremely low or high temperatures, at ...
Peru meteorite forces scientists to rewrite books
Back in September, a meteorite crashed somewhere in Peru, scaring locals and digging a hole in the ground, but pleased ...